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Overview
If you have ever filled out a form anywhere on the web, you’ve probably wanted an easy way to edit the entry. It’s easy to skip a field, typo a postal code, or worse. Have you ever submitted a form with your own name misspelled? I have. It’s embarrassing.
The most common reason most forms don’t offer an edit option is that it’s complicated. Forms are typically designed for a simple task: capture user input one time. They often lack the capability to retrieve a previous entry, let alone make edits to that entry.
We’re going to show you an easy way to add that capability to any of your Gravity Forms with GF Easy Passthrough.
Step 1 – Set Up an Easy Passthrough Feed
Navigate to the form’s Settings and click on Easy Passthrough to set up an Easy Passthrough feed.
Set the form as its own Source Form. All of the standard fields will automatically map because the source form and target form are the same form.
Step 2 – Install and Configure Snippet
Gravity Forms doesn’t include a built-in way to edit entries on the front end. This simple snippet will grab the last submitted entry ID (via Easy Passthrough) and use that to update the entry when the form is submitted.
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Gravity Perks // Easy Passthrough // Edit Entry | |
| * | |
| * Edit entry ID specified in field with current form submission. | |
| * | |
| * @version 1.0 | |
| * @author David Smith <david@gravitywiz.com> | |
| * @license GPL-2.0+ | |
| * @link http://gravitywiz.com/... | |
| * @copyright 2019 Gravity Wiz | |
| */ | |
| // Update "123" with your form ID. | |
| add_filter( 'gform_entry_id_pre_save_lead_123', 'my_update_entry_on_form_submission', 10, 2 ); | |
| function my_update_entry_on_form_submission( $entry_id, $form ) { | |
| if ( is_callable( 'gp_easy_passthrough' ) ) { | |
| $session = gp_easy_passthrough()->session_manager(); | |
| $update_entry_id = $session[ gp_easy_passthrough()->get_slug() . '_' . $form['id'] ]; | |
| } | |
| return isset( $update_entry_id ) && $update_entry_id ? $update_entry_id : $entry_id; | |
| } |
To use it, update the 123 with your Form ID.
Wrapping Up
If a visitor submits a form and navigates back to the form, Easy Passthrough will automatically pre-populate all of the form’s fields with the previous entry. Then, thanks to the snippet, the existing entry will be updated instead of creating a new entry.
Easy Passthrough uses a session cookie to pass data from one form to another. If that cookie is expired, it will not pass any data.
Help Us Take it Further
This is designed to work as simply as possible but there is a lot we could do from here. Tell us how you’d want to use this. We’ll collect your feedback and improve the functionality over time.
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